Feds to probe racial bias complaint in Florida schools

Issues include suspensions of black students

11:04 PM,
May 9, 2013

Written by

Mackenzie Ryan
| Florida Today

Investigators from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will examine allegations of race-based discrimination in Brevard Public Schools.

Four issues detailed in a complaint by the North Brevard Chapter of the NAACP will be investigated: the rate of suspensions among black students; the hiring of black teachers; the promotion of black teachers; and plans to close three schools with a high percentage of black students, while keeping open a school serving mostly white students.

School Board Chairwoman Barbara Murray declined to comment because of the ongoing ...